[Corpora-List] Lexicom-Asia 2006, Hong Kong

[Adam Kilgarriff]

DEADLINE FOR EARLYBIRD RATE: 7 OCT

                        LEXICOM-ASIA 2006
       A Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing
 
Venue:     Kowloon, Hong Kong
Hosts:     Language Centre, Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology
Dates:     December 11th-15th, 2006
 
 
Led by Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell of the Lexicography MasterClass,
Lexicom is an intensive one-week workshop, with seminars on theoretical
issues alternating with practical sessions at the computer. There will be
some parallel 'lexicographic' and 'computational' sessions. Topics to be
covered include:
 
*          corpus creation 
*          corpus analysis:
     o        software and corpus querying
     o        discovering word senses, recording contextual information *
writing dictionary entries 
*          dictionary databases and writing systems
*          using web data
 
Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of
these areas.  
 
Over the last six years Lexicom has attracted 200 participants from 28
countries including lexicographers, computational linguists, professors,
research students, translators, terminologists, and editors, managers and
technical support staff from dictionary publishers and information
management companies.  
 
The venue, HKUST, is beautifully situated on Clearwater Bay in Kowloon, only
30 minutes from central Hong Kong.
 
To register for Lexicom, go to: http://lc.ust.hk/~centre/lexi2006/  
Early registration is advised (the Workshop has been oversubscribed in
previous years), and registrations received before 7th October 2006 carry a
discounted fee.
 
Further details, including reports of past events can be found at:
http://www.lexmasterclass.com.
 
Michael Rundell & Adam Kilgarriff
The Lexicography MasterClass